Relatives of those who died waiting for livers at now halted Houston transplant program seek answers
Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating a hospital waitlist (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Deep-learning algorithm improves liver fibrosis diagnosis
An algorithm combining the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) and an ultrasound deep-learning model could improve diagnostic accuracy and referral management for all-cause advanced liver fibrosis, a study published April 23 in Radiology found.
Researchers led by Li-Da Chen, PhD, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China found that their combined sequential algorithm improved specificity by over 20% for predicting pathologically advanced liver fibrosis compared with the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) alone. Additionally, the algorithm reduced unnecessary referrals by 42% without requiring access to l...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Inspired by her mother, career, transplant nurse altruistically becomes organ donor
Stephanie Donelan recovers following kidney donation surgery Each April, the country celebrates Donate Life Month, an observance to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation, celebrating donors' incredible generosity and inspiring others to consider becoming organ donors. It is also a time to celebrate the unique contributions transplant nurses make to the lives of their patients. Inspired by her work and her mother, Stephanie Donelan, a post-liver transplant coordinator at Mayo Clinic in Florida,… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 23, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Heart-Liver Surgery May Help Patients Excluded from Transplant List
Patients with both heart and liver diseases are usually turned away from organ transplant lists. A new dual procedure aims to give them another chance. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Houston hospital says doctor's changes to a database made patients ineligible for liver transplants
A Houston hospital has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after it says a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplant patients, making them ineligible to receive a new organ (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Houston hospital halts liver and kidney transplants after learning a doctor manipulated some records
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has halted its liver transplant and kidney transplant programs (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants
A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brian M. Rosenthal and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Tags: Kidneys Liver Doctors Transplants Hospitals Memorial Hermann Houston (Tex) Texas United States Source Type: news
CEUS adds to locoregional therapy for liver disease
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can improve locoregional therapy for treating metastatic disease of the liver, according to early study results presented April 10 at UltraCon.
In her presentation, PhD candidate Corinne Wessner from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, highlighted initial findings from her team’s ongoing work suggesting that microbubble destruction from CEUS triggering is safe and well-tolerated among patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and metastatic liver disease who also receive transarterial radioembolization with yttrium-90 (Y90-TARE).
“When we add the ultrasound-t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news
What Experts Really Think About Diet Soda
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says.
Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice. But the latest research casts doubt on that assumption, linking diet drinks to mood disorders, fatty liver development, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, to name a few.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Ormont Blumberg Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Organ Is Still Working. But It ’s Not in a Body Anymore.
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
Sepsis blood test combined with AI could offer early detection tool
Researchers say dual approach could quickly detect patients most at risk of severe complicationsDoctors say combining a simple blood test with artificial intelligence could help diagnose sepsis faster and identifypatients at the highest risk of severe complications.Sepsis is a serious condition in which the body fails to respond properly to infection. It can progress to septic shock, which can damage the lungs, kidneys, liver and other organs. When the damage is severe, it can lead to death, with an estimated 11 million sepsis-related deaths worldwide each year.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 29, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Sepsis Medical research Health NHS Artificial intelligence (AI) Science Sweden Technology Source Type: news
News at a glance: Domestic U.S. postdocs, edited pig organs, and the Milky Way ’s central black hole
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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 -- Dr. Gary Gibbon didn’t have long to live.
A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently destroyed his lungs and caused irreparable damage to his... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
InnovationRx: Base Editing Pioneer Nicole Gaudelli Joins GV
Plus: eGenesis, the startup behind the first pig-human kidney transplant, is targeting hearts and livers next. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Jennings, Forbes Staff Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science Editors' Pick editors-pick Newsletter No Paywall no-paywall premium Source Type: news
